tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61991823343337776742018-02-19T08:33:34.034-08:00Weird fascinating stuffNews that are offbeat, strange or otherwise different from regular stuffAshish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.comBlogger553125WeirdFascinatingStuffhttps://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199182334333777674.post-563944102336198432018-01-23T06:24:00.001-08:002018-01-23T06:24:48.420-08:00Weird news - Keeping a crocodile in the basement<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">People have a fascination with wild animals, especially those who can pose a risk to the life of human beings, there is a certain kind of fatalistic attraction to such kind of animals. So you find people rearing snakes (even large ones such as Burmese pythons which can be incredibly powerful), or even large cats such lions or tigers or leopards (although the number of these have reduced significantly with more laws against domestic possession of such animals). However, once in a while you find stories of people who keep dangerous animals at home, even though it is totally prohibited in most countries.<br />In this case, when police officers were looking for a person who was suspected of illegal arms trafficking and searched his home, they found, surprisingly a large crocodile in the basement. Such a crocodile can be very unpredictable and dangerous, not only for the owner but for others in the vicinity as well (<a href="https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/russian-police-on-trail-of-weapons-cache-find-crocodile-in-basement-1802755?pfrom=home-topstories" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link to article</a>):<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Pictures released by police showed the animal sitting in the dark, in a shallow muddy pool. Daytime temperatures in Saint Petersburg hovered around minus seven degrees Celsius (19 Fahrenheit), far below the preferred climate for the species. Pictures released by police showed the animal sitting in the dark, in a shallow muddy pool. Daytime temperatures in Saint Petersburg hovered around minus seven degrees Celsius (19 Fahrenheit), far below the preferred climate for the species. </blockquote></div>Ashish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199182334333777674.post-86821304313298149572018-01-17T04:29:00.001-08:002018-01-17T04:29:20.271-08:00Weird news - Man dies after hitting a manhole<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">When people die tragically or in an accident, sometimes the way that they go is very strange (or weird). Consider this case, which is also a prime example of the incompetence of the local municipal authorities who left the road in a state of disrepair during a pipeline laying process. Accidents are known to have a high rate of severe injuries, or even fatalities because of the speeds involved, and because of the impact on frail human bodies. However, when you combine this with the shock caused due to the vehicle hitting a manhole, the driver being apparently drunk, and the vehicle catching fire after falling in a manhole which caused the driver to burn to death (and if he was drunk, the ability to respond quickly would have been also lost) (<a href="https://www.ndtv.com/mumbai-news/mumbai-man-burnt-to-death-bike-fell-into-open-manhole-exploded-1801041?pfrom=home-topstories" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link to article</a>):<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">As per the police the victim, a resident of Ulwe, was drunk at the time of the accident. The incident occurred when he was crossing sector 20 around 12.30am as per reports by Hindustan Times. The man lost control of his vehicle, which then jumped on to a sewage pipeline along the road. Smita Jadhav, senior inspector of NRI police station said, "The manholes along the stretch are uncovered as the construction work of a pipeline and road is going on. The victim and his two-wheeler fell into a manhole. After the accident, the two-wheeler caught fire and exploded inside the pipeline. The victim suffered severe burns and died on the spot." </blockquote></div>Ashish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199182334333777674.post-5872224491992473842017-06-27T03:48:00.000-07:002017-06-27T03:48:00.857-07:00Weird - Man in California buries son, learns son alive later<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">It's like a horror story, although the horror is more in terms of the psychological impact it has on the people. One of the worst experiences that they say that a parent can have is to witness or be told about the death of their children, and this is what this father had to experience.<br />One of their children (a man aged 57) had been suffering from mental illness and was living on the streets. Then his father got a call that their son had been found dead and that the police department had done verification of identity using fingerprints. In their shock, the family gathered together and did the burial for their son, and went through their grief. However, to their shock and relief, 11 days later, they got a call in which his son told the father that he was indeed alive, and the family learnt that the coroner had made a mistake in identification and that the son was alive (<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/california-father-buries-wrong-man-coroners-mistake-48262647" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link to article</a>):<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Eleven days after laying his son to rest, Frank J. Kerrigan got a call from a friend. "Your son is alive," he said. "Bill (Shinker) put my son on the phone," Kerrigan said. "He said 'Hi Dad.' " Orange County coroner's officials had misidentified the body, the Orange County Register reported Friday. "When somebody tells me my son is dead, when they have fingerprints, I believe them," Kerrigan said. "If he wasn't identified by fingerprints I would been there in heartbeat." <br /></blockquote></div>Ashish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199182334333777674.post-61440304680693448362017-06-24T02:24:00.002-07:002017-06-24T02:25:17.200-07:00Weird news - Boys wearing skirts to school in Britain<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Seems a bit strange to call this out - school going boys wearing skirts to school (somebody might even call this statement out to be sexist and not politically correct - after all, why can't boys wear skirts and girls wear trousers). However, there is a definite reason for them wearing skirts - a matter of protest. It is getting hot and the uniform of mandatory trousers (and jackets for senior students) would be making them hot and sweaty. When they asked in the school for being able to wear shorts, the administration refused, but said in jest that they could wear skirts.<br />So next day a small group of boys came wearing skirts (and even had razors after complaints that their legs were too hairy), and this spread to more students (once they were reconciled with wearing skirts, it was cool and breezy for them as opposed to wearing trousers) (<a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/britain-teenage-boys-wear-skirts-to-school-to-protest-against-no-shorts-policy/story-lYbS2yUjL08Ghfb0oP9XcM.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link to article</a>):<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Another said it was “quite refreshing”, pointing out that if even Royal Ascot had allowed racegoers in the royal enclosure to remove their jackets then the school ought to relax its dress code. One mother said: “My 14-year-old son wanted to wear shorts. The headteacher told them: ‘Well, you can wear a skirt if you like’ – but I think she was being sarcastic. “However, children tend to take you literally, and because she told them it was OK, there was nothing she could do as long as they are school skirts.” Another mother said: “Children also don’t like injustice. The boys see the women teachers in sandals and nice cool skirts and tops while they are wearing long trousers and shoes and the older boys have to wear blazers. They just think it’s unfair that they can’t wear shorts in this heat.” <br /></blockquote></div>Ashish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199182334333777674.post-68149898868813040512017-06-22T19:49:00.002-07:002017-06-22T19:49:48.225-07:00Weird news - Man dangles baby from window for Facebook likes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Fun and games for somebody can seem like endangering the life of somebody else. Especially when a baby is involved. It may seem like a prank, but can lead to massive outrage by others when they see somebody apparently being uncaring for the life of a baby (who after all, is incapable of taking care of itself and only survives due to the care of others around it, mostly parents). And when it seems that such a prank is being done to become popular or 'viral' on social media, it can become even more problematic and lead to more outrage.<br />In this case, a photo showing a man holding a toddler by the T-shirt and dangling the baby out of the window, apparently demanding 1000 Facebook likes to let the baby back into safety cost the man dearly. It may have been a prank, it may have been a Photoshopped image, but the image cost the man dearly. He was sentenced to 2 years in jail for endangering a child (<a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/1000-facebook-likes-or-i-will-drop-him-man-jailed-for-dangling-toddler-out-of-window/story-dRTyZe3S1k50tWqRCXx2WK.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link to article</a>):<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">An Algerian man has been sent to prison for two years for dangling a toddler out of a window of a high-rise building in the capital Algiers while asking for 1000 Facebook likes. The unnamed man shared a picture of himself holding the baby by his t-shirt with a caption ‘1000 Fb likes or I will drop him’, according to news site Al Arabiya. Social media erupted with anger and shock after the post went viral, leading to his arrest on Sunday. He has, however, defended himself, saying the image was photoshopped by Facebook users, reports said. <br /></blockquote></div>Ashish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199182334333777674.post-34496510500842977362017-06-07T04:42:00.000-07:002017-06-07T04:42:09.984-07:00Weird news - Bear breaks into a house when owners are away<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">There are numerous incidents where bears and other animals are learning from human proximity. Many locations in natural parks are places where bears have learned that proximity to humans means food and other comforts and since bears learn fast, there are frequent encounters with bears at camp sites. And bears tend to be large and fierce, so these encounters can be dangerous. Bears are also inquisitive animals, such as the below article makes clear.<br />A family came home and find their house in a state of disorder, something that they suspected was because of a burglar. But they had a camera installed, and checking the camera feed would have given them a big shock. They found a big bear roaming around the house, wandering through the kitchen and even striking a few chords on the piano. It must have been shocking, since it meant that a bear could enter their house easily, and this entry could have been also because the bear could have entered the house when they were in the house (<a href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/bear-breaks-into-home-plays-piano-caught-on-camera/1/971925.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link to article</a>):<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">A family in US state Colorado came home to find a trashed kitchen. They thought it was a burglar who had entered their house, so they called the police. But when the security cameras installed in the house were checked, they saw a black bear roaming around the living room. In a straight-out-of-a-Disney movie scene, the bear was seen roaming around the house as if it was the animal's territory. The bear even got up on its hind legs to reach up to the piano to play a few notes and then went to discover the rest of the rooms. <br /></blockquote></div>Ashish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199182334333777674.post-6194316428165044462017-06-06T07:40:00.000-07:002017-06-06T07:40:14.671-07:00Weird news - Sea Lion pulls girl into the water in Canada<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">No matter how cute some animals look, they are still wild animals, and unpredictable in terms of their actions, different from how humans tend to think of in terms of predictable actions. Sometimes the antics of wild animals seem very cute, but one has to remember that they are in fact wild animals and one has to be careful. Consider the following case where people flocked to see a sea lion which was very close to land. Children are even more attracted to them, having seen them in cute videos and performances where their performances are scripted and the audience is far away. However, in this case, the sea lion actually grabbed the girl and pulled her into the water and it was quick action which got her back to the land with some bite marks but otherwise safe (<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/21/world/sea-lion-pulls-girl-in-water-trnd/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link to article</a>):<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">At one point, the sea lion lunges within inches of the little girl's face. It seems like a friendly move, and the girl cackles with delight. That glee turns to terror a few seconds later, when the seal lunges again -- grabbing the girl and yanking her backwards into the water. A man, who Fujiwara thinks was a relative, jumps in after her and bystanders pull them to safety. "After being pulled back onto the dock, the family quickly walked away from the area without saying much," Fujiwara said. "They were probably very shaken up and just wanted to get away from the sea lion as fast as possible." <br /></blockquote></div>Ashish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199182334333777674.post-26018450381549387482017-06-06T01:32:00.000-07:002017-06-06T01:32:20.738-07:00Weird news - Tattoo, and then contamination leads to death<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Sometimes death can come in circumstances that seem weird. A person dies in a situation where so many others see no impact; these circumstances making the entire situation seem so weird. Consider the below case. When somebody gets a tattoo, it is essentially a case involving a needle piercing the human body many times, and like any other wound, it needs some treatment and some days rest before the person gets healed. Now, even when somebody gets a wound, just because they are exposing their skin to pathogens or germs, does not mean that they will get infected.<br />In the below case, the person got a tattoo and would have been advised to ensure that it is cleaned and disinfected on a regular basis until the wound is fully healed. And like many other people, the person would have done so for a few days until he decided to disregard any such advice and decided to go for a swim in the ocean water. Ocean water contains many bacteria, and even though people go for swims on a regular basis and many of them may be having some open wounds, in this case, the person got infected, and in such a serious way that complications set in and he died in a matter of days (with high additional risk factors because of regular alcohol consumption that had caused weakness in the liver). (Link to article):<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">ive days after getting his tattoo, the man decided to go for a swim in the Gulf of Mexico. Just three days after that, he was admitted to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas with severe pain in both of his legs and feet. His symptoms included a fever, chills and redness around his tattoo and elsewhere on his legs. "A lot of our patients, when they come to our institution, come in sick -- and he was certainly among the sicker of the patients that we've had come in," said Dr. Nicholas Hendren, an internal medicine resident at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and lead author of the report. "He said he had a lot of pain in [his right leg]. That, of course, drew our attention right away. "Within a few hours, things had progressed pretty quickly," he said. "There's darkening skin changes, more bruising, more discoloration, what we call bullae -- or mounds of fluid that were starting to collect in his legs -- which, of course, is very alarming to anyone, as it was to us. .&nbsp;</blockquote></div> Now, the warnings would have been there, but so many people would be disregarding the warnings and yet nothing happening. It was just unlucky in the case of this person that the infection took such a serious turn. Ashish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199182334333777674.post-79071490921178032102017-05-07T01:48:00.000-07:002017-05-07T01:48:17.827-07:00Weird news - Teen wakes up on the way to his funeral<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">One reads of stories like this from time to time, but the emotional impact of such a story is incredible on the person involved and the family members. Imagine if this recovery had happened just a few hours later, when it would have been too late and the person would have had a cremation.<br />The youth had been bitten by a stray dog and because of the high fever and complications that followed, he was hospitalized with a severe problem and at the end, the doctors said that they were unable to provide any further help and that he was beyond help. So the family decided to take him away When they felt no movement or other signs of life, they took him to be dead and decided to take him to the funeral.<br />However, he got up on the way to the funeral, which would be a shock to his family, but also a big relief (<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hubballi/dharwad-teen-wakes-up-on-way-to-his-funeral/articleshow/57242895.cms" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link to article</a>):<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">A 17-year-old boy woke up on the way to his funeral in Dharwad's Managundi village, surprising his relatives and villagers who had presumed him dead. He was rushed to a private hospital where his condition is critical. Bitten by a stray dog one month ago, Kumar Marewad, 17, had high fever last week following which he was admitted to a Dharwad hospital. As his condition deteriorated, the teenager was put on ventilator. The doctors told Kumar's relatives that he was critical and that he would not survive if life support was removed. Informing them that infection had spread in Kumar's body, the doctors left the family to decide if they wanted to continue treatment. Later, the family decided to shift him home. <br /></blockquote></div>Ashish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199182334333777674.post-55433455803254136722017-05-02T08:16:00.000-07:002017-05-02T08:16:04.531-07:00Weird news - Kid driving a car in New Zealand, training !<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The age of driving varies in different geographies and countries, with it being 16 in some places and 18 in some places. The idea is that driving means you are risking both yours and other people's lives, and hence some amount of maturity is required. This rule can be implemented quite strictly with strict fines in the more developed countries, while less developed countries struggle to check this problem and enforce the necessary penalties. But in a country such as New Zealand, one would expect that this is a very strict rule and there would be few people willing to experiment with breaking this rule.<br />So consider the surprise of this driver when he saw that the car ahead of him was being driven by what seemed like a 8 year old, and with a goat in the car. And it was not just some kid who had stolen the keys for a joy-ride, in fact, there was an adult in the backseat who was fine with the kid driving (<a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&amp;objectid=11835796" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link to article</a>):<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Video has emerged of a child driving a car packed with other children - and a goat. The footage, filmed in Whitianga by Auckland's Gaz Walden, shows several children in a red Ford Falcon with a boy, about 8 years old, at the wheel. Walden then realises there is a goat in the back seat. "You're f***ing kidding me. What the f*** is going on. This is insane. Look at him, he can only just see over the steering wheel," he says. He pulls up next to the car and tells the boy he shouldn't be driving - but then a middle-aged man climbs out of the back seat to reassure him, saying the boy is "actually training". "I don't care mate - that is ridiculous," Walden tells him. <br /></blockquote></div>Ashish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199182334333777674.post-39781975139486819082017-05-01T08:16:00.000-07:002017-05-01T08:16:14.835-07:00Weird news - Snake falls through ceiling and remains unseen for a couple of days<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Seems a bit weird, that a large hole is there in the ceiling, which means some animal or something must have dropped through; and yet nobody detected a snake there for a few days. The hole had been detected, but it was assumed that this was because a possum had fallen through (and they have had possum problems before). It was only after the cleaner saw this large snake (and if you see the image, it is a pretty large snake); of course, the snake had eaten a large animal and hence was not likely to move much (snakes tend to become slower after they have eaten, they are slowly digesting what they have eaten). Hence, it became easy for them to evict the snake from its resting place (<a href="http://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/huge-snake-falls-through-ceiling-in-australia-spends-2-days-undetected-1684135?pfrom=home-topstories" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link to article</a>):<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">On Tuesday, Chantal Vaughan walked into her gym and discovered a hole in the ceiling. The owner of Bokwa CQ gym in Rockhampton, Australia, she initially thought that a possum had probably fallen through the ceiling and didn't think much of it - the gym has a possum problem. Two days later, however, she received a terrifying text from her cleaner, informing her that a massive snake had been found inside the gym. The hole in the ceiling, it turns out, was made by a huge snake falling through it. <br /></blockquote></div>Ashish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199182334333777674.post-35784361855587234342017-03-17T07:29:00.000-07:002017-03-17T07:29:08.713-07:00Weird news - Robbing missionary, getting beaten up<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">This is the kind of behavior that police forces are always in 2 minds upon. If you are set upon by 2 robbers who have a gun, fighting them can be dangerous since one does not know their state of mind. They could be desperate and liable to use the gun on the person they are robbing, and a simple robbery could turn into a tragedy, a murder.<br />However, when something like the below case happens, people are liable to applaud the person who defeats the robbers, such as the missionary in this case. He was picked on by 2 armed robbers in Brazil, and fought back, disarming them and sending them on their way (<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/16/watch-brazilian-robbers-pick-on-the-wrong-mormon-missionary/?tid=pm_national_pop&amp;utm_term=.ca6a3345184a" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link to article</a>):<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">A newly released dramatic video captures two would-be robbers in the streets of Brazil being undone by a Mormon missionary from the United States, who disarms one man and pummels another with punches. In the end, the apparent attackers flee on foot, leaving behind their motorcycle. “The missionary feared for his life and reacted,” Eric Hawkins, spokesman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, headquartered in Salt Lake City, told The Washington Post late Wednesday. No police report was filed, he said. <br /></blockquote></div>Ashish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199182334333777674.post-39130449211448084552017-03-16T07:26:00.001-07:002017-03-16T07:26:59.801-07:00Weird news - Young boys kill flamingo in zoo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The law says that young children cannot be penalized for their actions, although some countries do allow prosecution if the crime committed is particularly heinous, say for example, when they kill somebody or rape, or something similar. It gets more tricky when they indulge in behavior that is a portend of future bad behavior, but when they are so young, how does one penalize them ? It is a similar situation when a 6 year old kills a younger boy; at that young age, one cannot treat them as an adult and punish them, but at the same time, the crime can be horrendous.<br />In the present case, these 3 young boys, who obviously has thought about what they were planning on doing, climbed into a zoo and broke into the flamingo enclosure and started pelting them with stones and killed one of these beautiful and graceful birds. And probably the only thing that can be done is that the zoo can charge their parents for the damage that has happened, which should be atleast some kind of indicator to their parents that something needs to be done (<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/16/three-young-boys-kick-and-stone-a-flamingo-to-death-at-czech-zoo/?utm_term=.c65505de2b7b" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link to article</a>):<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">It was here that the pink-feathered bird was stoned and beaten to death Friday by a trio of young boys, zoo officials told The Washington Post, marking the latest in a string of attacks around the world on zoo animals. The boys, ages 5, 6 and 8, broke into the zoo and scaled a fence to reach the indoor flamingo exhibit. Then they attacked the 60-bird flock, throwing rocks and sticks at them. “First, they pelted them with stones and then one of them kicked it,” resident zoologist Jan Vašák told the Prague Morning. One of the birds, the 16-year-old father of eight, bled to death after suffering a broken leg bone and severed arteries. Another bird is recovering from serious but not life-threatening injuries, according to a zoo statement obtained by The Washington Post. <br /></blockquote><br /></div>It was also lucky for the boys that they did not get into an animal enclosure which was not dangerous, else they would have been at the receiving end.Ashish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199182334333777674.post-9365573436033936372017-02-25T07:17:00.000-08:002017-02-25T07:17:04.028-08:00Weird news - Boy pulls out snake from car<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Most people treat snakes with a lot of caution, given the fearful danger that poisonous snakes pose to the unsuspecting person who comes close to a snake and gets bitten. Even those snakes that are not poisonous can be dangerous in terms of causing a bite and being painful, and even the site of such snakes can scare people.<br />It is thus that makes people wonder at those people who can play around with snakes, such people can be very popular. It is even more incredible when somebody young is able to do this, such as in this case where a boy is shown pulling a snake out a vehicle before heading to school. The video of the Australian boy shows him under the car, pulling the snake out and was finally done (<a href="http://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/queensland-snake-boy-pulls-out-huge-snake-from-car-before-school-1663218" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link to article</a>):<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Uploaded by Yogi McDougall from Queensland, Australia, the video shows the teen lying under a vehicle. You can clearly see him trying to pull the snake out from it. Another man can be seen holding the snake's tail. "I've got the head," he says as he tugs at the snake to get it out. He eventually succeeds at the job and puts the snake in a bag held up by an older man. The video makes for quite an interesting watch. <br /></blockquote></div>Ashish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199182334333777674.post-73348629098170725882017-02-24T07:10:00.001-08:002017-02-24T07:10:45.959-08:00Weird news - Rent a house and pay to use the toilet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">How interesting. You rent a house and move in, and get a great surprise. The bathroom is one of the most essential rooms in a house, a need that cannot be ignored especially when it is urgent. How big a shock can you get when discover that the toilet is a pay per flush operation, something installed by the landlord. How big a shock can this be ? Imagine what happened to the renter of this Melbourne house who discovered that the landlord had installed such an arrangement in the house. It would have been a big shock, something that the renter would be wondering whether it was legal or illegal, or whether the rental arrangement could be revoked (<a href="http://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/pay-per-flush-landlord-installs-coin-operated-flush-in-renters-toilet-1644952?pfrom=home-specialevent" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link to article</a>):<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Think you have it bad with a nosy landlord or one who doesn't provide enough services in your accommodation? Chances are your situation may not be as dire as this Melbourne resident whose landlord installed a coin-operated flush in his toilet. Can you imagine paying a dollar per flush? In a Reddit post, shared four days ago, the tenant shared his plight with netizens, asking if this arrangement was in fact legal. "Is it legal for my landlord to have installed a dollar coin operated flusher on my toilet?" he says on the social networking site. He further explains that the landlord's reason for this was 'a government incentive to save water'. <br /></blockquote></div>Ashish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199182334333777674.post-74342937069731372582017-02-14T07:29:00.000-08:002017-02-14T07:29:01.388-08:00Weird news - 31 February as per the Government<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Sometimes a Government or an official may act in such a way that it all seems funny. Especially when it comes to regular action by a Government where it can seem that the Governments are bloated messes, just sucking in the money of regular tax payers and not providing the required quality of services in turn. Consider the following case, which was a regular government action of extending a passport, which botched it up. This was the Pakistani Government consulate in Dubai, which broke the calendar and extended the passport to Feb 31, a date which can never exist (<a href="http://zeenews.india.com/world/pakistans-officer-extends-passport-validity-to-february-31-this-is-how-twitterati-reacted_1976680.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link to article</a>):<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">An official at the Pakistani consulate in Dubai extended the date of a passport till February 31 without realising that the second month of the year has 28 days (February 29 is leap day). And the Internet just can't get over it. The photo shows that the passport was granted an extension on January 31. <br /></blockquote></div>Ashish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199182334333777674.post-56478764418703187322017-02-14T00:18:00.000-08:002017-02-14T00:18:05.236-08:00Weird news - Breaking the car window to rescue a mannequin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Sometimes things appear funny in retrospect. After all, if you consider the current case, where the police got a report about a woman frozen inside a car, the natural move would be to get her out of the car and then get the proper medical aid. There is very little to fault the actions of the police in this regard. In normal times, it might be easy for a skilled police personnel to be able to distinguish between a crude mannequin and a person, but when you take into account an emergency situation, a life like mannequin wearing an oxygen mask, it would have been difficult to do so. And so it happened in this case where the car was broken into, and then to everyone's surprise, the mannequin was detected rather than a person who needed emergency medical care (<a href="http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/police-breaks-car-window-to-rescue-frozen-woman-who-turns-out-to-be-mannequin_1959344.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link to article</a>):<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">The Times Union of Albany reports that a caller told police there was an elderly woman "frozen to death" in a parked car. Officers rushed to the scene and found what appeared to be a woman sitting in a car's front passenger seat wearing an oxygen mask. A sergeant busted a rear window, opened the door and discovered that the woman was a realistic mannequin. The car owner arrived and said he uses the dummy for his job selling medical training aids. <br /></blockquote></div>Ashish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199182334333777674.post-20275848947539146052017-02-13T00:03:00.001-08:002017-02-13T00:03:38.388-08:00Weird news - Cockroach up the nose and into the skull<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">It is the stuff of horror movies, where an insect or a giant invasion of insects, or an 'alien' in space gets inside the human body (or in movies such as the 'Mummy' where an Egyptian insect gets inside the skin and cause huge damage); but it apparently happens from time to time. So, for example, doctors have had to do delicate extractions of insects and small creatures from inside the nostrils or the ears where these creatures have climbed inside (typically when the subjects have been sleeping). Now, inside, these creatures are still alive, and movie, giving rise to dreadful feelings in the patient; and it is only in hospital that such conditions are medically cured and the invading insect or creature is removed.<br />Consider the following case where a cockroach climbed in through the nose, and the lady afflicted, could feel the cockroach moving inside her. She went to one hospital, referred to a second and then a third and finally when a scan was done and then an endoscopic examination, could doctors determine the source of her discomfort. There was something inside her head, and it was moving. Finally the doctors managed to fish inside her head and retrieve the insect (<a href="http://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/she-felt-a-crawling-sensation-doctors-found-a-live-cockroach-in-her-skull-1656903?pfrom=home-topstories" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link to article</a>):<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">She was soon referred to a second hospital, where doctors suspected she might be suffering from a nasal growth. At a third hospital, doctors recommended a scan, and told her the discomfort may be coming from "a foreign body that seemed to be mobile," The Times of India reported. Finally, in her fourth doctor visit - at Stanley Medical College Hospital - doctors used an endoscope to find the culprit: a blob with a pair of antennae. "It was a full grown cockroach," M.N. Shankar, the head of the ear, nose and throat department, told the Times of India. "It was alive. And it didn't seem to want to come out." <br /></blockquote></div>Ashish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199182334333777674.post-59287738967143885792017-02-01T09:23:00.002-08:002017-02-01T09:23:47.904-08:00Weird news - Punishing a father since his son not granting divorce<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">It seems like a weird case. After all, in cases of a divorce, legal matters are typically between the husband and wife, and parents are mostly not included; unless there is some kind of harassment that is also part of the overall separation and divorce proceedings However this divorce proceeding in Israel is different, since the divorce law over there (which in turn is based on religious laws) ensures that the husband gets a veto over the divorce. Unless the divorce is granted by the husband, it will not happen. Over a period of time, the rabbinical courts have been granted powers to 'persuade' the husband in case he is not willing.<br />However, in this case, the husband was not present in Israel, instead spending time in the United States, primarily due his rich father who provides his son a stipend and a job. So when the father came to Israel for a visit, he was prevented from leaving and his passport taken away. The father is protesting about the court doing a kind of extortion attempt on him to ensure that his son comes to Israel and grants the divorce, and it would seem that the rabbinical courts have no other leverage (<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/11/07/israeli-court-punishes-american-for-son-divorce-refusal.html?refresh=true" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link to article</a>):<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">According to the court documents, the wife suffered the stroke on a visit to Israel with her husband in 2005. Shortly after, the husband returned to the U.S., where he remains. His wife and their two children stayed in Israel and she became an Israeli citizen. The court says the husband has ignored her request and a court ruling for a divorce as well as another ruling demanding he pay alimony. The father is in his late 60s and according to court documents is a wealthy member of New York's Hasidic community who runs a real estate company. He was in Israel last year on a family visit when he was summoned to the court, told to hand in his and his wife's passports and barred from leaving the country. He was later sentenced to 30 days in prison for contempt of court. The rabbinical court argues that by providing his son with a job and stipend, the father is responsible for his son's intransigence. His lawyers argue he is being used as leverage to pressure his son and are appealing to the Supreme Court. <br /></blockquote></div>Ashish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199182334333777674.post-53898248956031603972016-12-18T21:02:00.001-08:002016-12-18T21:02:30.194-08:00Weird news - Living with a needle in the ass for years <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Once in a while, you will read a report about somebody having a medical examination and then having something removed from their body that was foreign to the body and yet was present there for years and years. It seems most unlikely, after all, how can something be present in the body for so many years and not come out, or not even be able to feel that foreign object in the body and so on. And yet there are cases where a person has got a bullet in their body for years and even decades and it was fine, until one day when it started causing problems and has to be removed. In this case, a person had a needle in their ass and after decades, the needle finally started causing problems and had to be removed (<a href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/needle-in-rear-man-lives-22-years-surgically-removed/1/815724.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link to article</a>):<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Kiran Kumar, from Malayankeezhu in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram, has been living with a sewing needle in his rear for the last 22 years. Kiran, now 34 years old, had gotten the needle pierced inside when he was in the sixth grade after he sat on it. It seems he was taken to a hospital then, but the doctors weren't able to find the needle. Nor did he undergo any further check up because there was no pain or discomfort. But two weeks ago, after 22 long years, Kiran felt immense pain in his rear and went to a private hospital for check up from where he was referred to Thiruvananthapuram medical college hospital. Doctors there found that the needle is the cause of pain and swelling and understood it was one and half inches deep inside his body. They couldn't find the exact location then. <br /></blockquote></div>Ashish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199182334333777674.post-1584956938691238912016-12-14T05:19:00.001-08:002016-12-14T05:19:49.704-08:00Weird news - Person dissolves in Yellowstone hot water spring<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">A horrific accident, that just goes to show how dangerous it can be to take security considerations and safety rules lightly. Yellowstone National Park is very attractive for visitors because of the beauty, and because of the hot springs and geysers; but underlying all this is the fact that the park sits on top of a huge volcanic chamber, and the conditions on top are because of the magma chamber underneath. As a result, there are many different types of gases (many of them dangerous), different levels of heat in the water along with many minerals that can make contact with the water dangerous. For the safety of visitors, there are regulations about where all visitors can go, and visitors are forbidden to go outside these regions. In addition, even though it may seem attractive to enjoy bathing in these hot springs, the conditions can be dangerous and hence it is prohibited. This horrific accident shows why these regulations should be followed (<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/17/man-who-dissolved-in-boiling-yellowstone-hot-spring-slipped-while-checking-temperature-to-take-bath/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_2_na&amp;utm_term=.e3e9524cebcc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link to article</a>).<br />This sister faced the horror of seeing her brother fall and die in a hot spring, and the high level of minerals (corrosive) caused a quick dissolution of the body to the extent that when rescuers tried to retrieve the body later, it could not found (<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/17/man-who-dissolved-in-boiling-yellowstone-hot-spring-slipped-while-checking-temperature-to-take-bath/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_2_na&amp;utm_term=.e3e9524cebcc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link to article</a>):<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Like many of the 840,000 people who visited Yellowstone in June, Colin and Sable Scott, a brother and sister from Oregon, came to marvel at the basin’s thermal features. But their visit took a turn for the horrific, as The Washington Post reported, when the pair left the protective boardwalk and hiked 225 yards into the basin. “Then, somehow, Colin Scott slipped, and as his sister watched, the 23-year-old tumbled into one of the boiling springs. Despite her immediate call for help and the prolonged search efforts by park staff, her brother was never seen again,” The Post reported in June. One of the few pieces of evidence left behind was a pair of Scott’s flip-flops. <br /></blockquote><br /></div>Ashish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199182334333777674.post-52839101799093470422016-11-07T00:48:00.000-08:002016-11-07T00:48:01.781-08:00Weird news: Killing wife and cutting into parts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Imagine the horror that some bystander feels when they see a plastic bag, maybe oozing a bit of blood, or covered with red color that looks suspiciously like blood; then the curiosity takes over and you open the plastic bag and see a body part - it could be a head or a leg or hand. The sheer horror would cause you nightmares, and you wonder how somebody could be so depraved to do something like this.<br />One hears of this being done by crazed multiple murderers or in the movies, or even done as part of some mob action; but that this was done by a husband who killed his wife and then cut her into multiple parts, which in turn were put into plastic bags and placed around the area for unsuspecting people to find these parts and witness horror that might give them nightmares. It also makes problems for the police staff, since they have first to identify the person who has been killed and disposed off, and then try to identify the killer. However, since in a major part of cases, it is the spouse or family member who is responsible, they found the killer as well after the conclusion of the investigation (<a href="http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/man-kills-wife-dumps-severed-body-parts-across-alwar-city-1621424?pfrom=home-topstories" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link to article</a>):<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">A murder most macabre that had terrified the residents of Rajasthan's Alwar all of last week, has finally been solved. Since Diwali last week, dismembered parts of a woman's body - burnt and put into plastic bags - were being found in different residential colonies in the city. Over four days, the police came across seven such body parts, they all had one thing in common - they had been dismembered, burnt and stuffed into bags. It all began on October 30, when in Alwar's Arya Nagar - an upper middle class neighbourhood - a bag was discovered with a woman's right foot in it. The next day, two hands in two different bags were discovered. In the seventh and the last bag, found on Wednesday, was the woman's head. <br /></blockquote></div>Ashish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199182334333777674.post-81384686860642497592016-06-23T05:45:00.000-07:002016-06-23T05:45:11.305-07:00Weird news - Finding a 16 feet python in the house<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Ohmigod. That would be the reaction of people if they see a large snake, even on the path. There is a major fear of snakes that people have, even if the snake might be as afraid of them as they are of the snake. From ages ago, there is a fear of a snake suddenly appearing and biting and killing a person, this fear even being captured in the Garden of Eden in the Bible. So, imagine the reaction when you see a large python inside your house. I have handled a 10 feet python and know the strength (it was a baby), so the power of a 16 feet python must be incredible.<br />A python kills by squeezing its prey within the coils and exerting an incredible pressure till the prey gets suffocated and dies. A 16 feet python could do that to a human as well, so even though the python is not poisonous, it is deadly no less. This Australian lady who saw the python in her house did not do anything stupid, she took photos and video and called the correct authorities to handle it (<a href="http://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/intruder-alert-oz-woman-finds-16-feet-python-in-her-house-1422223?pfrom=home-topstories" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link to article</a>):<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">An Australian woman had an uncomfortably close encounter with a 16-feet python that she found stretched out from her living room to her guest bedroom - it looks as frightening as it sounds. Tina Hibberd from Queensland, which is partly covered in rainforest, found that the massive reptile had slithered in uninvited on June 19 at 4.30 am. She called the snake removal services for help and then took a picture of the 30 kg python that had made itself at home. <br /></blockquote></div>Ashish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199182334333777674.post-41993510537711828662016-06-22T12:36:00.000-07:002016-06-22T12:36:02.400-07:00Weird news - Farted, and hence kicked out of the match<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">There are a number of societal rules, whether these be due to decency or for the rule of law. Farting or breaking wind in public is frowned upon in most societies, especially when this results in bad odor or a loud noise. And yet, as most people would know, farting is like the call of nature. If your stomach is not good or your intestine is full of gas, there has to be a way to remove this gas from the body and it comes out through farting. Stopping this, especially when the gas is trying to come out, is very difficult. The most a person can do is try to move away from other people at this point of time, do the expelling of air and then come back with the hope that other people do not comment on the reason for the person suddenly moving away. And yet, younger children, not bound by these rules, sometimes have fun with this sudden and loud expelling of air.<div>In a football game, being given a yellow or a red card is typically done for some kind of misbehavior, but this was probably the first time that a player was given a red card and thrown out of the game for farting during a game (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/22/swedish-footballer-sent-off-for-farting-during-match" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link to article</a>):</div><blockquote class="tr_bq">A Swedish footballer has hit out after being sent off for breaking wind during a match – with the referee accusing him of “deliberate provocation” and “unsportsmanlike behaviour”. Adam Lindin Ljungkvist, who was playing at left-back in the match between Järna SK’s reserve team and Pershagen SK, was shown a second yellow card late on in what local media called “bizarre circumstances”. “I had a bad stomach, so I simply let go,” the 25-year-old told Länstidningen Södertälje. “Then I received two yellow cards and then red. Yes, I was shocked, it’s the strangest thing I have ever experienced in football. “I asked the referee, ‘What, am I not allowed to break wind a little?’ ‘No,’ he replied … I don’t get it but maybe he thought I farted in my hand and threw the fart at him. But I did not.” <br /></blockquote><div><br /></div></div>Ashish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199182334333777674.post-19389827878424630932016-06-19T06:10:00.000-07:002016-06-19T06:10:05.063-07:00Weird news - Mom drives car, while overdosing on drug<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">It seems so weird. First of all, those who have not taken drugs and know the danger of drug addition wonder why people get caught up in drug addiction; and then there is the additional case where you wonder how a parent can put their children, especially minor children, at risk through drug addiction. After all, the concept is that minor children do not have all the abilities to survive in this world, and need the support of adults to some degree to survive and thrive; and that parents are hard-wired to care for their children and ensure that they come to no harm.<br />So this case where a lady was driving a car when she was basically out of control because of having over-dosed on a synthetic drug. It can be so dangerous; can easily have an accident, or drive across a red traffic light and be hit by another vehicle which was driving carefully. And of course, when police come across somebody who is being so dangerous, they are liable to take strict action (<a href="http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2016/04/dallas-mom-odd-on-brainfreeze-drug-while-driving-with-kids-police-say.html/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link to article</a>):<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Police say a Dallas woman was driving with her two children last week when she overdosed on a drug called Brainfreeze. Angela Williams, 37, remains in the Dallas County Jail on a charge of driving while intoxicated with a child under 15, as well as a hot check charge. Her bail is set at $7,000. About 8:20 p.m. last Thursday, Williams parked on a median at Samuell Boulevard and St. Francis Street, apparently having a seizure in her Chevy Malibu, a witness told police. Her two children, ages 11 and 13, told officers that Williams was driving “crazy” and acting irrationally, laughing at nothing in particular. The witness removed both children from the car for their safety, the police report says. <br /></blockquote></div>Ashish Agarwalhttps://plus.google.com/115895262420417074685noreply@blogger.com0